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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and can no longer live without it. We cannot even imagine life without machines. Yet machines have enslaved us. They determine our movements and our thoughts.
— Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature (1955)

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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and the machine now invents us. We do not live, we are lived.

1mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, but we have not invented the controls that belong with the machine.

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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and now we are ourselves parts of the machine.

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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents. The machine has possessed us, and we must either master it or perish.

1mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machines, but we do not know how to live with them.

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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents, and only the most radical knowledge of the authenticity of being can save us.

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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents, and only the most radical knowledge and the most intimate courage can possibly enable us to endure.

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